Today, the Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF), together with Baxter Healthcare Corporation, celebrated the opening of the Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies at the University of California?San Francisco (UCSF).
Record bulk-billing rates for GP attendances were achieved for children, people aged over 65 years and for rural and remote area people in the March quarter of 2007.
Investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered inherited variations in certain genes that make children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) susceptible to the toxic side effects caused by chemotherapy medications.
The antiviral drug peramivir might offer humans significant protection during a pandemic of the avian influenza virus H5N1, according to results of mouse studies conducted by investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Fear of stigma and discrimination remains one of the biggest factors in preventing people from seeking treatment for mental illnesses.
On Sunday, 13 May 2007, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide will walk together over a 24-hour period in each of the planet?s time zones, to deliver a message: child hunger has no place in this world and citizens across the globe can put an end to it.
IDM Pharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDMI) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) voted 12 to 2 that the results of INT 0133, the Phase 3 trial, do not provide substantial evidence of effectiveness of Junovan (mifamurtide) in the treatment of patients with non-metastatic, resectable osteosarcoma receiving combination chemotherapy.
High blood pressure in children often goes unnoticed at the doctor?s office, and many children go home without follow-up or treatment, suggests a study from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center.
Despite new guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control saying that all teens be routinely tested for HIV, many pediatricians continue to test only patients with high-risk behaviors, according to a study from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center.
Challenging prevailing wisdom that only children with end-stage kidney disease suffer physical, emotional, social and educational setbacks related to their disease, research led by the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center shows that even mild and moderate kidney disease can cause such problems.